Our olive harvest was our most successful so far. We hand picked 398 kilos of olives over 5 days which gave us 49 litres of oil. For an Italian that’s a years supply, for us it’s way beyond our needs but we are grateful to have so much.
Last Friday one of my front crowns became loose. Next day I managed to get an appointment with a local dentist, he opened specially and wouldn’t take any payment for the examination and x rays. It seems the post inside the crown, my original tooth, has a partial crack and I’ll need root canal work or an implant, which obviously I will get done when we return to Ilkley in about 10 days time. I asked the dentist if he could add some cement to keep the tooth stable I hate it wobbling, but he but said that could risk infection. However I hope I can find one of this dental repair kits just in case the crown comes off, I dread having a gappy smile. I am cutting my food very small and posting it into the opposite side of my mouth, brushing my teeth is tricky.
Grigio has had good and bad days. As instructed I reduced her medication by half but after a few days she started going backwards so I upped it again. She recovered, is eating well and seems happy, sitting out in the sun, scratching fence posts and the sofa, climbing onto my knee or snoozing in front of the stove. I promise she isn’t suffering at all but we have no one to care for her when we leave, she cannot continue on this level of steroids permanently and even if she was well her condition could recur at anytime. The vets have tried to find someone to take her while we were away, I have approached a shelter, there is no one. So before we leave next week we will have to have to take her to be put to sleep, it’s the kindest thing to do but I cannot bear it.
